Pezeshki Mohammad Z, Zeighami Bahram, Miller Warren B
Department of Community Medicine, Tabriz Medical School, Tabriz, Iran.
J Biosoc Sci. 2005 Jan;37(1):37-53. doi: 10.1017/s0021932003006485.
Millions of children who were born during the first decade after the Islamic revolution in Iran are now reaching the age of marriage and childbearing. Short spacing between marriage and the birth of the first child has the potential to cause an excessive and costly increase in the growth of population in Iran. Research into the motivations for the birth of first child among newly married couples can create a knowledge base that will enable health centres to help these couples make better decisions about the timing of their first pregnancy. Using a consecutive sampling technique and administering Miller's Childbearing Questionnaire, data were gathered regarding the childbearing motivations and desires of 300 couples who had been referred to the Shiraz Health Center for premarital counselling. The Childbearing Questionnaire, with some minor modifications, was found to be a valid and reliable instrument for measuring the childbearing motivations of newly married couples of Shiraz County, Fars Province, Iran. The utility of these findings for counselling in health centres is discussed. Based on the results, a longitudinal study is being designed that will allow the development of models for predicting the time of first pregnancy after marriage.
伊朗伊斯兰革命后的头十年出生的数百万儿童如今已到适婚和生育年龄。初婚与头胎生育间隔时间过短有可能导致伊朗人口过度增长且成本高昂。对新婚夫妇头胎生育动机的研究能够创建一个知识库，使健康中心能够帮助这些夫妇就首次怀孕的时机做出更好的决策。采用连续抽样技术并发放米勒生育问卷，收集了300对前往设拉子健康中心接受婚前咨询的夫妇的生育动机和意愿数据。经发现，经过一些小修改的生育问卷是测量伊朗法尔斯省设拉子县新婚夫妇生育动机的有效且可靠工具。讨论了这些研究结果在健康中心咨询中的效用。基于这些结果，正在设计一项纵向研究，以开发预测婚后首次怀孕时间的模型。
